Background
Leadership has become an essential issue for health care organizations; leader is expected to be the role model of ethical behavior and protagonist of values for their nurses. Absence of ethical behaviors from leaders is known to be very costly for health settings. Toxic leadership behaviors have a negative impact that affect nurses work outcome.
Objective
To investigate the relationship between toxic leadership and work outcomes.
Setting
The study was carried out in all in-patient care units at Shoubrakhit General Hospital.
Subjects
All target population of staff nurses (n=475) who were working in the previously mentioned settings for not less than six months and available during the time of data collection.
Tools
Tool I: The Toxic Leadership Scale. Tool II: Work outcome Scale.
Results
There was statistically a significant negative correlation between nursing leaders' toxic leadership as perceived by studied nurses and overall work outcomes, where P =0.018.
Conclusion
The study concluded that there was a statistically significant negative correlation between perceived toxic leadership and work outcomes.
Recommendations
The health care organizations should establish leadership training programs and workshops to provide nursing leaders and supervisors with the leadership skills and practices that they need to perform their roles in effective manner to enhance work outcomes.